| The Defendant's intention to terminate in any event breaks the chain of causation. |
| The inquiry itself embodied a pivotal shift in scientific paradigms of disease causation from miasmatic or filth-based models to the germ theory. |
| Such a view reconciles free will not with determinism but with the highly plausible thesis of universal event causation. |
| But what about the suggestion that event causation is instead reducible to, or analysable in terms of, agent causation? |
| Homicide, for example, is such a crime because you need to prove actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, causation, and harm. |
| In the study of environmental toxins, the causation of diverse effects is usually the rule rather than the exception. |
